The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'
I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'
I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.
